how to be ok at stuff

If you haven’t yet read Warren Ellis ad Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan, you’re missing out in a major way. Hunter S. Thompson shuffled right on out of his mortal coils and on to the great buffalo in the sky in the middle of my senior year. I remember a teacher I had reading the announcement aloud [...]

3. Reading is Key My next stab in the dark was to start reading in earnest again. During the month of November, I had limited myself to writing and reading Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. Having finished House of Leaves and my 50000 words, I felt an emptiness in my days, but began to [...]

I have been sorely remiss in my posts. I won NaNoWriMo, for those of you a) holding your breath in anticipation or b) actively cheering me on. It was an amazing experience, and one that I intend to repeat next year and for many years to come. I was fulfilled at the end of it, [...]

Yeash! (this is my happy-dance, Sean-Connery-esque yes, my happy happy yes because I have made it to and through another goal day in November, the novel month, as in fiction, as in Yeash!) So forgive my overwrought happiness. It’s a side-effect of this pursuit. Oh how I briefly mourn (before again being distracted by my [...]

I am in need of money and thinking that one of the best options is to sell some of my old stuff in the house as well as my personal belongings. I’m the type of person who keeps old stuff for sentimental value. But every time I attempt to dispose it I feel guilty/sad thinking [...]